Forever a Woman

A tragic social drama set in post war Japan about a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo.

When she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves.

Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only o

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugi's

A college aged woman arrives in Tokyo to study while finding work at the wealthy Tashiro family home as a tutor of the daughter, while the two brothers vie for her attention.

A doctor devotes his life's work to finding a cure for breast cancer.

Musashi Miyamoto is challenged to a duel by a confident swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. He agrees to fight him in a year's time.

In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure years of tribulations until he can return.

A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

Toward the end of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also struggling against alcoholism. Into his life comes

Explores the wounds of war, the limits of love and the need to forgive. A sad and troubled man, Reikichi Mayumi finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other

A widow life is left in turmoil when her childhood lover returns to town, left between the decision whether to go with him and start a new life in tokyo or settle down with her kindly brother-in-law,